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Doing drugs to pass the quarantine

Doing drugs to pass the quarantine

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Anora, 2024

★★★★ Watched on 16 Nov, 2024

I can see the hype on this one. It makes a Houdini transformation from romance to comedy and it never lets up. I feel so bad for Anora by the end, there's a hardened realism that gives way to youthful naivete in her. The last shred of her innocence that gets destroyed over the course of the film. But the supporting cast and the ways in which the characters respond to each other is so hilarious. Was definitely a fun watch but not sure if an all time great. Time will tell.
The Substance, 2024

★★★★½ Watched on 16 Nov, 2024

Watched this with a Q&A with Margaret Qualley afterward who brought her adorable newborn pup with her. This movie was not any easier to watch the second time around. In fact even knowing what was coming I think I was more prone to look away and close my eyes than the first time I watched. Still the allegory is so potent that you can't help but think about the implications of everything happening on screen. This time around I noticed the 2001 references and the magnificent use of color.
Inside Out 2, 2024

★★★½ Watched on 12 Nov, 2024

Got to watch this with a Q&A with the director, Amy Poehler, Tony Hale, and June Squibb afterwards. I wanted to love this film but a lot of it felt like a retread of the first one, thematically and visually as we saw a lot of the same locations as the first. Still I think the angle of an Anxiety focused story is very impactful. It truly feels that these feelings that are more complex than the first ones fit the child/young adult dichotomy that the movie set up. Of course it's still plenty hilarious, my particular favorite the joke was the sarchasm one.
Conclave, 2024

★★★★ Watched on 8 Nov, 2024

An interesting insight on the almost systemic hypocrisy inherent in the church. Pride is a sin and yet, the most proud and ambitious of the cardinals will become pope. They all wrestle with this political and spiritual catch 22 in different ways but I feel like the film doesn’t go deep enough in its portrayal of the cognitive dissonance this must induce in everyone involved. It does hint it at though, the way they must be sequestered from the outside world to come up with a decision, the ways in which some cardinals explicitly deny wanting to be the next pope while also gladly accepting votes. The twist at the end feels a little out of left field and unearned but it does furtherakw the audience ask themselves questions which are productive. Overall though its a fun ride to see all these men of God basically going through their own version of House Of Cards level political machinations.
Godzilla Minus One, 2023

★★★★½ Watched on 5 Nov, 2024

Pour one out for my best bro Godzilla, the dude was just trying to eat and expand his territory. Is it his fault that those annoying humans kept projecting their feelings of grief, despair, dishonor, failure and regret onto him? Post-war Japan reeling from the loss of their identity as a nation the way Shikishima lost his identity after he couldn't go through with his flight, had to claw back and take it by ending the war made manifest in all its scaly glory. Masterpiece.
The Batman, 2022

★★★★ Watched on 31 Oct, 2024

“Thursday, October 31st the city streets are crowded for the holiday.”

I had to watch this it was too good of an opportunity to pass up. I’m still in love with the production design here, lots of spooky gothic architecture, reds, darkness. Year two Battinson sells his inexperience well, he’s shocked by some of the things the riddler does, which I think an older more jaded Batman would have expected. It does still feel a tad overstuffed but I’m looking forward to the next one.

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